effects of NYC power outage

Mon Jul 22 15:50:29 UTC 2002

A side-note on why 25 Broadway lost power.

I am told they had the fuel, but the "Local 3" union worker who was
watching the gauges on the generator misread the dials, and a human
error caused the generator to run bone dry.

--Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Marshall Eubanks
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:27 AM
To: Craig Partridge; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: effects of NYC power outage

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:05:21 -0400
 Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Anyone got good data comparing the effects on the Net (BGP 
> reachability,
> etc) of this weekend's NYC power outage with the effects power outage
late
> on September 11th.
> 

Hello;

  To be honest, I did not see any BGP or other routing effects from the
NYC fire (there were problems on Abilene this weekend, but they were due
to a bad router update). My data are presented on

http://www.multicasttech.com/status   

and are fairly coarse-grained, having a 6 hour update cycle.

The 9/11 problems actually came starting on 9/13 and 14 when the battery
/ generator power started running out at 25 Broadway. My understanding
is that the biggest problem was the inability to access the facility to
refuel.

My (multicast-centric) analysis of the 9/11 response was presented at 
Nanog 23 :
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/eubanks.html

You should also look at the other two presentations on 9/11 and the
Internet at that meeting :

http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/agenda.html

                                 Regards
                                 Marshall Eubanks

T.M. Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc.
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> I'm on a National Academy of Sciences committee looking at how the 
> Internet fared on 9/11 and we're always in search of good comparative 
> data.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Craig Partridge
> Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies